guru
03-10-2003, 08:57 PM
Dear SETI@home participant,
After nearly four years of searching for extraterrestrial
intelligence, the SETI@home project will take a closer look at its
most promising candidate radio sources. The "Stellar Countdown" will
use Puerto Rico's Arecibo radio telescope on March 18-20, 2003 to
re-observe up to 150 of the most interesting radio sources found out
of the billions detected since the distributed computing project
began in May 1999. For more information, please see
http://planetary.org
Your computer was one of the ones that processed the data for the
selected candidate radio sources. There might be interest from the
media (newspapers, TV, etc) to talk to people whose computers
processed that data. Local newspapers and TV stations often want to
include a local angle in their stories and may request to speak to a
SETI@home participant who lives in their vicinity. They would not be
looking for technical details -- those are available from the
SETI@home team. Instead they might ask how you became interested in
SETI@home, how much time your computer spends processing SETI@home
data, how long you have been a participant, etc.
If you are willing to be interviewed by the media, do not reply to
this message - please e-mail LINDA WONG at The Planetary Society as
soon as possible and let her know:
linda.wong@planetary.org
She will need the following information from anyone who is willing to
be interviewed by the media:
city and state of residence
name
age
e-mail address
phone number(s)
(optional) your line of work
Your information will be kept on file, but you will be contacted ONLY
if needed for an interview.
Thank you,
Susan Lendroth
Manager of Events and Communications
The Planetary Society
After nearly four years of searching for extraterrestrial
intelligence, the SETI@home project will take a closer look at its
most promising candidate radio sources. The "Stellar Countdown" will
use Puerto Rico's Arecibo radio telescope on March 18-20, 2003 to
re-observe up to 150 of the most interesting radio sources found out
of the billions detected since the distributed computing project
began in May 1999. For more information, please see
http://planetary.org
Your computer was one of the ones that processed the data for the
selected candidate radio sources. There might be interest from the
media (newspapers, TV, etc) to talk to people whose computers
processed that data. Local newspapers and TV stations often want to
include a local angle in their stories and may request to speak to a
SETI@home participant who lives in their vicinity. They would not be
looking for technical details -- those are available from the
SETI@home team. Instead they might ask how you became interested in
SETI@home, how much time your computer spends processing SETI@home
data, how long you have been a participant, etc.
If you are willing to be interviewed by the media, do not reply to
this message - please e-mail LINDA WONG at The Planetary Society as
soon as possible and let her know:
linda.wong@planetary.org
She will need the following information from anyone who is willing to
be interviewed by the media:
city and state of residence
name
age
e-mail address
phone number(s)
(optional) your line of work
Your information will be kept on file, but you will be contacted ONLY
if needed for an interview.
Thank you,
Susan Lendroth
Manager of Events and Communications
The Planetary Society